Fantastic Sheep and Where to Find Them
It's no secret that I'm a big fan of farm animals. With lockdown a year ago, I couldn't travel to city farms to get my animal fix, so I had to look closer to home. This post is a celebration of Croydon's sheep and a guide to where to find them, although sheep are moved around as necessary through the year. Goats and cows are also used for conservation grazing on some sites but I'll cover them more in another post. Sheep are naturally nervy but the ones round here are generally pretty tame and curious and their characters shine through. If you do see sheep, please don't feed them and please keep your dog on a lead anywhere where there are sheep grazing, even if you think your dog isn't a threat to the sheep. There have been incidents where dogs have found their way into the fields and seriously injured and even killed sheep in Croydon. Croydon Ecology Centre, based at Heathfield Gardens , has an orchard with two resident sheep. They're pretty friendly.